kwanbix

Why would you out of nowhere spoil a book like that?

I allway say it: it is the defaults, stupid (paraphrasign).

The Defaults have to be the most sensitive ones.

If you are a supposed super secure app, this should be the default.

He is saving 4 keystrokes out of ~400 by typing LNX instead of Linux.

Those super yatchs of larry have to be paid somewhow.

> Your company has figured out the perfect arrangement. You’re good at your job, and you don’t cause problems. Your manager knows they can count on you. From the company’s perspective, this is the ideal state. Why would they change anything?

Whish I had knew this earlier in my career. I worked for IBM. I was very good at delivering usable software for internal use. They kept me there forever. They would give me awards and such, but never a change as the author says. If I needed something, I had to do it myself.

And google translate or google maps if you are traveling are very nice to have.

Sure, you can do without them, but it will be much more difficult.

If you mean Delphi Community, it has some restrictions, but probably 99% works?

If you mean Lazarus, it is fully open source. No restrictions but the ones of the software itself.

Delphi or Lazarus (https://www.lazarus-ide.org) should solve it.

I find the sidebar very confusing. I can not click on the INBOX folder for example.

I think it's important to start by saying that using Lotus Notes only as an email client misses the bigger picture, as Lotus Notes was was so much much much more than that. IBM had thouthands of custom made apps running on Lotus Notes. I had built about 50 apps.

Also, you didn't mention when you used it. I worked with Lotus Notes from 1995 to 2010, and the experience really depended on the hardware available at the time. Once it was up and running, it performed just fine if you had enough memory. For example, I still have version 8.0.2 (from 2008) on my machine, and it uses roughly 13MB at idle and up to about 50MB depending on installed apps, which isn't much by modern standards. But back in 1995, when 8MB of RAM was common, if Notes took up 6MB, I can see how that would have been a real issue. In my case, my ThinkPad had 32MB, then 64MB, and even 192MB which is the moment I installed Windows 2000.

As for the UI, the email client was highly configurable. Honestly, I don't remember ever thinking that something like Netscape Mail or The Bat looked or any email client that I tried at the time looked better. I didn't use Outlook back then, so I can't compare directly, but if Outlook over the past decade is any indication, Lotus Notes was at least on par, if not better that it.

What's really surprising is that even today, Lotus Notes had features that many modern clients still lack. For example, you could select multiple emails and forward them all together in a single message. Simple, but incredibly useful, and not something you commonly see implemented even now.

For reference, here's what the email client looked like: https://ds-infolib.hcltechsw.com/ldd/dominowiki.nsf/xpDocVie...

I still don't see how Outlook is better than that.

You are absolutelly right, it was a NoSQL database with a RAID environment on top.

It was SO fast to write things in Lotus Notes, that is crazy. I did it for 10 years.

It had some limitations, I don't recall them now, but basically you could do almost anything. You had to find a way.

But it was FAST to develop. It was crazy.

I agree with everything but the UI part. I think it was on par with Office. I used both at the same time. This is if you are compering Outlook, the email client, with the email app in Lotus Notes. As Lotus Notes was much more than email client. I was just the other day talking about Lotus Notes and Outlook. Lotus Notes had 3 different ways to look for info, the most powerfull one being indexing the database. My friend was praising how good Notes search was vs Outlook that never seem to find anything.

Lotus Notes Supported Formulas, LotusScript and Java.

AirTable? Really? As a Lotus Notes Developer working internally at IBM, I can not see the resemblance.

That is what I have for me. Refurbished thinkpads, returns from banks and such, for 1/3 the original price.

Wish not Which

I used to work for IBM and run some servers and my ThinkPad was running OS/2.

Really nice OS. Which it was a more reasonable $50 for personal use.

I have heard that many times. Is it know why, if true?

Seems to ve very weird that IBM will give them a license to keep OS/2 updated but no access to the kernel.

I hope that at least this wakes up AMD/Intel/PC Manufacturers. I don't expect a 600 usd x64 laptop, but I could surelly use an 800~1000 one.

As much as I like the performance and the power consumption of the current apple lineaup, the problems is I can not install Linux on the Neo. I can beraly install it on the M1, M2, and M3. And not everything works. If I could install Linux and have everything working, I will buy a Macbook (not a Neo) right away.

So you have become a reviewer instead of a programmer? Is that so? hones question. And if so, what is the advantage of looking a code for 12 hours instead of coding for 12.

So you are saying that the ceo of the company that builds the chips is saying that it makes sense to change them each generation?

My first pentium was clocked at 60Mhz.

Sort of. It won't be save between machines, for example, as chrome's implementation does. If Firefox crashes, most of th time it is lost. It is also not as clean as chrome's native implementation. I have tried it.

This has been requested since 2022: https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/ideas/user-defined-name-for-e...

That is exactly what I said.

I never undertood why publishers couldn't agree in 5 different sizes or so.

Please, implement "name window" natively in Firefox.

I have to use chrome because the lack of it.

15 tabs? I manage multiple projects, one per window, and have about 15 to 30 tabs per window. So maybe 300 tabs.

I know. I wish Apple for once did the nice gesture and provide documentation.

Whoever is happy with MacOS, uses MacOS, whoever is happy with Linux (or BSD) uses Linux.

I guess a great deal of devs/techies would migrate to Macbooks.

I don't know if it is corporate greediness or corporate stupidity.

In Argentina we can transfer using our account number (or account Alias, for example my alias could be kwanbix) directly, account to account, instantly, it costs 0.

Because I don't like MacOS and my understanding is that Asahi has issues with: * USB-C Displays * Thunderbolt / USB4 * Touch ID

Touch ID is the least of the problems, but the other two are more serious.